The Latest NPfIT News
CIO News - CSC robustly defend £13bn NHS IT project
Relationship with NHS has had 'ups and downs' but is succeedingCSC, a lead supplier alongside BT on the £12.7 billion NHS National Programme for IT, has said it is confident about the future of the...
Computerworld UK's News - Tories claim NHS IT 'stitch up'
Contract negotations with BT and CSC 'aimed at saving £12.7bn scheme from new government'The Tories have accused the government of trying to renegotiate its contracts on the £12.7bn NHS IT programm...
Computer Weekly News - Minister to sign new NPfIT deals before General Election?
Health officials are seeking urgently to sign deals with the two main suppliers to the NHS scheme, which would commit the next government to at least £3.5bn of spending on the troubled National Pro...
Computer Weekly News - London GPs make it easy for patients to ?opt-out? of c...
London GPs are taking collective action which will make it easier for their patients to "opt-out" of having their medical details uploaded to a central database...
Computerworld UK's News - NHS spends £39m on National IT Programme lawyers
Equivalent of 26 surgeries or 21,500 patients' annual treatmentThe NHS has spent over £39 million pounds on lawyers to support the National Programme for IT, which has so far lost half of its lead ...
Computer Weekly News - NPfIT spend rises to more than £6bn
The government will have spent more than £6bn centrally on the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) by the end of this financial year, in April, according to figures released to the Conservatives ...
CIO News - Tories vow NHS IT and management is 'number one priority'
Patients would control own records online, according to manifestoThe Conservative Party today fired off its election-year campaigning with a focus on changing NHS IT and management, insisting that ...
- New direction for £13bn NHS IT programme
Will trusts be given a choice on patient system procurement?The government has set a ?new direction? for the ailing £12.7 billion NHS National Programme for IT.
Computerworld UK's News - Major health records systems make care 'less effici...
Global study makes grim reading for National Programme for IT in the NHSLarge scale electronic patient records systems can make healthcare less efficient, according to a major study funded by the NHS.
CIO News - NHS study damns electronic patient records systems
Global study makes grim reading for National Programme for IT in the NHSLarge scale electronic patient records systems can make healthcare less efficient, according to a major study funded by the NHS.
Computerworld UK's News - NHS meeting with CSC and BT over delivery deadline day
Decision on the programme's future expected in weeksThe NHS has held a series of meetings with key suppliers BT and CSC over the future of the £12.7 billion National Programme for IT.
- Is Darling backing away from £600m NPfIT cuts?
The Government appears to have changed its mind over cutting spending on NHS IT scheme by £600m over the lifetime of the programme. Two days ago the...
Information Age - Notorious NHS IT refresh to be ?scaled back?
The government is planning to scale back the scope of its disastrous NHS IT modernisation project as part of its scheme to cut the country?s £175 billion budget deficit. ?The NHS had a quite expen...
Computer Weekly News - Health Secretary announces NPfIT savings of £600m and ...
The government will cut £600m from the total lifetime costs of the NHS's £12.7bn National Programme for IT, the Health Secretary announced today. This...
Computer Weekly News - NHS IT scheme to be scaled back
The Chancellor Alistair Darling and the Treasury are to scale back spending on the NHS's National Programme for IT. Although the BBC reports that the...